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Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (9 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies The EU sets out its International Digital Strategy (European Commission – 5 June 2025) Today, the European Commission and the High Representative are setting out a joint vision for the EU’s external action for digital. As the digital revolution is reshaping economies and societies in a global geopolitical landscape which is […]

Daily Digest on AI & Emerging Technologies (6 June 2025)

Governance and Legislation Strengthening global AI Safety: A perspective on the Singapore Consensus (Lee Wan Sie, Denise Wong – OECD.AI – 5 June 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance rapidly, societies around the world face a growing urgency to ensure that the AI safety research keeps pace and that these tools are not only […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (5 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Global cybercrime experts meet at Council of Europe 2025 conference (Council of Europe – 4 June 2025) From 4 to 6 June 2025, the Council of Europe is bringing together over 500 leading cybercrime experts from around the world in Strasbourg to address current challenges, review the global landscape of cybercrime […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (4 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Introducing the OECD AI Capability Indicators (OECD – 3 June 2025) The report introduces the OECD’s beta AI Capability Indicators. The indicators are designed to assess and compare AI advancements against human abilities. Developed over five years by a collaboration of over 50 experts, the indicators cover nine human abilities, from […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (3 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies FDA deploys generative AI tool Elsa to transform agency operations in historic move (Interesting Engineering – 2 June 2025) In a major step toward modernizing its operations, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday launched Elsa, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, designed to help agency employees, including scientific […]

Weekly Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (2 June 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Optimising Computing Approaches for India’s National AI Capabilities (Anulekha Nandi, Anusha Guru – Observer Research Foundation – 31 May 2025) Artificial Intelligence (AI) compute demand has grown exponentially for over a decade. Since 2011, the amount of compute used to train AI models has grown by a factor of 350 million. […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (30 May 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies AI Governance Needs Federalism, Not a Federally Imposed Moratorium (David S. Rubenstein – Just Security – 29 May 2025) On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a budget proposal including  a ten-year moratorium on state and local regulation of AI. The proposal aims to nullify dozens of existing state […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (29 May 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Cybersecurity Risk From Kaspersky to TikTok (Daniel Sutherland, Jim Dempsey – Lawfare – 28 May 2025) In its final weeks, the Biden administration established a complex new regulatory structure that affects potentially every American company collecting personal information. The rule is aimed at limiting foreign access—particularly access by China—to Americans’ sensitive […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (28 May 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies Trump’s Gulf AI gambit to reshape the Middle East tech landscape (Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal, Megha Shrivastava – The Interpreter – 27 May 2025) While the world watched Donald Trump’s high-profile visit to the Middle East alongside Silicon Valley’s biggest names, only a few would have anticipated that one of the most […]

Daily Digest on AI and Emerging Technologies (27 May 2025)

Governance, Legislation, and Geostrategies AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios (Paul Samson, S. Yash Kalash, Nikolina Zivkovic – CIGI – 26 May 2025) Technological development and diffusion are rapidly transforming economic, financial and societal systems. Policy and legal frameworks may be unable to keep pace with approaches that maximize opportunities and manage risk, and advancing artificial intelligence (AI) […]